"Don Quixote had his windmills /Ponce de Leon took his cruise
Took Sinbad seven voyages /To see that it was all a ruse
(That's why I'm) Looking for the next best thing"
- Warren Zevon

Wednesday, 13 April 2005

Riding Tandem With The Random

Things don't go the way I planned them. I'm just going to put a few shorter things here, but it's not quite a "Short Shorts" sequel.

So...

Illusion of choice. If you search for a train on National Rail when you try and book it at the end you get a choce of 4 or 5 different vendors. Thing is they all use the Trainline system to do it. So why bother pretending there's a choice?

And while we're there if you try to register with an Austrian postcode it won't let you so it effectively doesn't allow overseas sales. Rubbish.

The Internet Archive is now stocking Warren Zevon concerts. Go there listen to his great music but also check out the covers he does: First We Take Manhattan, What's New Pussycat, Trouble and That's Amore. Great stuff.